Terence C. Ahern

Degrees:

• Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University, 1991
  Major: Curriculum and Instruction, Instructional Systems Design
• M.A., San Francisco State University, 1983
  Major: Education
• M.A., The University of Chicago, 1981
  Major: Education
• M.A., The Graduate Theological Union, 1978
  Major: Biblical Studies
• B.A., The University of California, Santa Cruz, 1974
  Major: Religious Studies

Courses Taught:

• TE 611 Computer Mediated Communication
• TE 750 Web-Based Instructional Design

Projects:

• 2003-2004. Principle Investigator. The RedPencil Project. Mini-grant --The Foundation California State University Monterey Bay
• 2000. Principle Investigator. Improving the Instructional Congruency of Educational Software. Multidisciplinary Seed Grant, Texas Tech University.

Recent Scholarly Efforts

Refereed publications:
 

• Ahern, T.C., Talent-Runnels, M., Thomas, J., Lan, W., Xioming & X. Cyrus J. Social Coherence: The Effect of Social Grounding on Collaboration in a Computer-Mediated Small Group Discussion. The Internet and Higher Education (Accepted for Publication)
• Ahern, T.C., Van Cleave, N, Martindale, T & Smorgun, J. (2003) Curator: Learning Construction Matrix. Proceedings of the Frontiers in Education Conference (pp. F4F 19-24). Boulder, CO:IEEE.
• Ahern, T.C. (in press) Chapter 11: Hardware and Networking. In Robert Price Teaching On-Line: A Guide for Authors and Teachers.
   

Presentations:
 

• Ahern, T.C. (2005) The effect of paired-programming and instructional design on student performance and satisfaction in a beginning programming course. ACMCSE 2005
• Ahern, T.C. (2005) Teachers, Taxonomies and Technology: Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association. Montreal: Canada.
• Ahern, T.C. (August 2004) RedPencil: Providing timely feedback online. Paper presented at the Interactive Learning Technologies Society of Applied Learning Technology.
   

Honors, Awards, Recognitions:

• 2004. Summer Fellowship: CSU Faculty, Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity Award.
• 1998. Nominated for Bernie J. Rushing Research Award, College of Education. Texas Tech. University.
• 1995. Texas Tech Ex-Student Association New Faculty Award.
• 1993. Outstanding Paper award presented at the meeting of the Southwest Administrative Services Association, New Orleans.